Measuring Green Productivity Growth for China's Manufacturing Sectors: 1991-2000*

Measuring Green Growth Efficiency for Chinese Manufacturing Industries

As a pillar industry in supporting Chinese economy, Chinese manufacturing industry consumes a large amount of energy and causes serious environmental pollutants. Better understanding the greening level of manufacturing industry is important to promote its green growth. Hence first this study, measures the green growth efficiency for Chinese manufacturing industries by applying the EBM measuring...

Superstatistics of Labour Productivity in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Sectors

Labour productivity distribution (dispersion) is studied both theoretically and empirically. Superstatistics is presented as a natural theoretical framework for productivity. The demand index κ is proposed within this framework as a new business index. Japanese productivity data covering small-to-medium to large firms from 1996 to 2006 is analyzed and the power-law for both firms and workers is...

The Productivity Growth Slow- down: Diverging Trends in the Manufacturing and Service Sectors

Continuing gains in labor productivity are essential to keep real wages and the U.S. standard of living from stagnating. After a period of strong gains in the 1960s, the average growth rate of productivity slowed substantially in the early 1970s. In the following years, productivity continued to grow slowly despite rapid technological advances in such areas as computers and digital communicatio...

The Ghanaian Manufacturing Sector 1991–1995: Firm Growth, Productivity and Convergence

The removal of high levels of protection combined with substantial real devaluations has changed the environment in which Ghanaian manufacturing firms have operated in the 1990s. The changes in output, composition and productivity, which have occurred over this period, are examined in this paper. Survey evidence for the growth of the sector is shown to be consistent with data from sales tax ret...

Decomposing Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing